"Steve W." wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

You can't do Winodws Updates with an out of date version of Internet
Explorer.

Sure you can. I have IE 6 and the only thing it does for updates is
check for the windows installer package.
You can't use a different breed of browser though, without a few add-ons.


It won't offer you all of the updates, just some.

It gives you the updates for everything MS you have installed. Plus any
hardware driver firmware updates, what's left?

It also shows IE security/version updates. Which I don't install because
I don't run IE.


It won't let me install .net updates without the current version of
IE. All the computers at a local business need .net to run Quickbooks.
Also, some updates were corrupt, but claimed to install OK. That caused
problems installing other updates. Until those were fixed, over 70
other updates weren't offered. I had to remove .net from one computer
and reinstall it because of a corrupt update. Then I had to reinstall
the updates it affected. It took six hours to download and install
everything, but their XP Pro was finally up to date.